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Definition of Bluecoats
1. bluecoat [n] - See also: bluecoat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluecoats
Literary usage of Bluecoats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Life and My Lectures by Lamar Fontaine (1908)
"I was in Page Valley, near Luray, when I saw a squad of bluecoats around Kite's
... I was fully sixty feet from the ground when three bluecoats rode up and ..."
2. The Women of the Debatable Land by Alexander Hunter (1912)
"to the partisans, for they could call to their aid any detachment of bluecoats
nearest them. Their design was to mix with the people as far as they could ..."
3. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"Everywhere, bluecoats!—for in this city of over six thousand inhabitants only
... bluecoats we see everywhere,—here one asleep by himself under the shade of ..."
4. The Scout: A Tale of the Civil War by Charles Waller Tyler (1911)
"Headlong they scurried—making a race track of the public highway—• popping away
now and then at the fleeing bluecoats, making the air ring with shrill ..."
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